A federal judge sentenced Warner on Jan. 14 to two years of probation. He could have been sentenced to up to five years in prison.
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Stephen Baldwin

The youngest Baldwin paid another $100,000 installment payment on his unpaid New York taxes on Jan. 10, his lawyer said.

He has $100,000 to go.

In March 2013, the youngest Baldwin brother pleaded guilty to failing New York state income taxes in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Under the plea deal, he was allowed to avoid jail and had the chance to clear his record if the bill was paid in a year.

The total bill in taxes, interest, and penalties was $400,000, but he had paid $100,000 before entering his guilty plea.
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Rasheed Wallace

Former Boston Celtics player Rasheed Wallace owes more than $150,000 in property taxes on a 9,000-square-foot house he owns in southwest Portland, Ore., according to county records.

Wallace is now an assistant coach with the Detroit Pistons. KATU-TV, which is located in Portland, Ore., tried to speak with Wallace about his property tax bill, but the NBA star-turned-coach refused to acknowledge a reporter.

Wallace played one season for the Celtics, retiring after the team’s loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2010 NBA Finals.
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Sophia Loren

Italy’s top court handed the actress a victory in a nearly 40-year-long battle over back taxes on Oct. 23.

The Rome-based Court of Cassation ruled Loren was right when calculating tax owed on her 1974 income.

Loren’s tax experts, applying one of Italy’s not-infrequent tax amnesties, calculated that she owed tax on 60 percent of her income that year, but tax officials insisted she should have paid tax on 70 percent of her taxable income. The top court decided that Loren was right, according to the Associated Press.

In separate tax dispute, Loren voluntarily returned to Italy in 1982 to be jailed, serving 17 days of a 30-day sentence for tax evasion. She said then her deceased tax preparer had erred.

The rapper, whose real name is Joseph Cartagena, reported to prison on Aug. 26 to serve a 4-month sentence after admitting he failed to file federal income taxes. Prosecutors alleged he failed to pay taxes on $3 million in income from 2007 to 2010, costing the government $718,038.

“Fat Joe” is best known for topping the Billboard charts with his song “What’s Luv.”
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Al Pacino

The famed actor was quick to get back in the good graces of tax enforcers.

Teresa and Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice, two stars of the hit reality show “Real Housewives of New Jersey,” were charged in a 39-count indictment on July 29 in Newark, New Jersey. The pair was charged with submitting fraudulent mortgage and loan applications from 2001 to 2008. Joe is also accused of failing to file tax returns from 2004 to 2008.
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Chris Zorich

Ex-Chicago Bear and former Notre Dame All-American football player Chris Zorich was sentenced by a US judge to three years probation for failing to file federal income tax returns over several years. The 44-year-old pleaded guilty in March.
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Five-time Grammy winner Lauryn Hill completed a three-month prison term earlier this year for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes over the past decade.

She must also serve three additional months in home confinement.

Authorities said Hill earned more than $1.8 million during the three years that she failed to file returns. Prosecutors say her primary source of income is royalties from the recording and film industries.
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Mary J. Blige

According to Forbes, the singer owes the IRS $3.4 million, and to collect it, they have filed a lien on her property. Blige has been in tax trouble before as, according to Forbes, the State of New Jersey is going after her for nearly $1 million in unpaid taxes.
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The buxom blonde joined the list of high-profile celebrities who owe back taxes to the IRS back in April 2010. The "Baywatch" star owes the IRS $259,395.75 for unpaid taxes in 2011, and also owes the State of California $112,118.90 in unpaid taxes for the same year, according to TMZ.

This isn’t the 45-year-old’s first run-in with the IRS — TMZ notes that in 2010, she had a tax lien filed against her for $1.7 million in unpaid taxes.
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Xzibit

Former “Pimp My Ride” host Xzibit needed someone to pimp his bank account when the government issued him a tax lien for $130,696.65 for 2011, TMZ reports.

This isn’t the first tax drama for the rapper, who has reportedly filed for bankruptcy twice since 2009 and ran up a tax bill of nearly $1 million.
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The billionaire media mogul “received the stiffest sentence among the four co-defendants convicted in a scheme that involved inflating the price his media empire paid for TV rights to US movies and pocketing the difference.”

Berlusconi was expected to remain free while his lawyers appeal the verdict.
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Hip-hop star Nas experienced some multimillion-dollar tax woes when the IRS slapped him with a tax lien for more than $6 million in back taxes, according to MTV News.

He also owes more than $1 million to the State of Georgia for taxes from 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2010. The state’s tax agency obtained a court order to take the overdue taxes out of his tour earnings.
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Ruben Studdard

We didn’t stutter — the “American Idol” winner and his ex-wife owe $180,216.73 in federal taxes to Alabama for 2009, TMZ reports.

Studdard has been down this road before; in 2008, he had a property lien filed against him in Alabama for nearly $200,000.
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R&B star R. Kelly, who last year saw his suburban Chicago mansion fall into foreclosure, is no stranger to having the Internal Revenue Service at his door.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports documents held by the Cook County Recorder of Deeds show the recording artist owed the IRS nearly $5 million in unpaid taxes for 2005-2010. According to the state of Illinois, he now owes another $1,379,695.11 for 2011.Next

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Rapper Lil' Kim is running into big tax problems, owing the government more than $1 million, according to a report in Accounting Today.

Supermodel Christie Brinkley recently owed $531,000 in back taxes, and the IRS filed a lien against her. The Daily News of New York reports that the tax lien was filed Nov. 21 on a mansion in Bridgehampton on New York's Long Island, where she lives. Brinkley said in a statement the lien was a "result of an error" and pledged it will be paid in full.
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The "Cheers" alum and recent "Dancing with the Stars" contestant owed $41,000 in property taxes on her Tampa-area mansion. Alley called it an "oversight," and said she is paying the taxes.
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Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne

The Osbournes are rock royalty and reality TV stars. Even they can't escape the IRS.

CBS reported in April that Ozzy and Sharon owed more than $1.7 million in back taxes and were at risk of losing their Los Angeles home. The couple owed $718,948.25 for the 2008 tax year, and $1,024,175.03 for 2009. After media reports about the problems surfaced, the "Daily Mail" reported they settled the bill with the IRS.
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Snipes failed to file tax returns from 1999 to 2004. In court he pleaded not guilty to charges, saying he was not required to pay the tax bills. Snipes, who is a member of a group that challenges the government's right to collect taxes, was acquitted of the most serious charges in 2008, but he was convicted on three misdemeanor counts for not filing a tax return. After failed appeals, he is now serving a three-year sentence in a federal prison in Pennsylvania. The "Blade" trilogy star also may be forced to pay $13 million in back taxes and fines.
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Hatch, the first winner of "Survivor" and one of reality television's earliest stars, apparently didn't suspect the IRS would catch wind of his $1 million prize. The Rhode Island resident failed to pay taxes on the income and in 2006 was convicted of tax evasion. Hatch was sentenced to four years and three months in a federal prison in West Virginia, and was granted a conditional release in late 2009.
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Lil Wayne has gone back and forth with the IRS in recent years. The hip-hop star was hit with a tax lien in 2008 for around $977,000 but was able to pay it off. Then in the summer of 2010, he was hit with another one for $1.13 million. The Detroit News reported both of those were paid off. In April 2011, the BET reported he was hit with another lien—this time for $5.6 million.
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"Rush Hour" star Chris Tucker continues to top himself. After a lien had been issued for more than $3.5 million back in 2009, another one was issued for more than $11.5 million in July 2010.

The actor apparently owes money for federal taxes from 2001, 2002, and 2004 through 2006, according to TMZ.

In February 2012, the State of Georgia slapped Tucker with an additional tax lien for almost $600,000 in back taxes from 2007.
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The reality television star of "Keeping Up With The Kardashians," allegedly owed the state of California around $18,490 in back taxes from 2007, but said the problem was with her accountant not her financial management skills, according to TMZ. The Kardashian sister stated that her old accountant had never actually paid the bill. She has since paid back the bill with a new, and more reliable, financial team.
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Like fellow “Dancing With the Stars” alumnus Helio Castroneves, Carter found himself locked in a tango with the IRS. The damage? A little more than $1 million in back taxes, as reported by TMZ in November 2009. Johnny Wright, Carter’s manager told Entertainment Tonight that the former child star’s finances were “grossly mismanaged” by previous advisers while Carter was a minor.
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John McCain’s favorite Everyman from the 2008 presidential campaign came out swinging against President Obama’s tax plan. But Samuel “Joe” Wurzelbacher may not have been the man you want on your side come tax time: Court records showed he owed the State of Ohio nearly $1,200 in income tax, ABC News reported. Court officials asked about the issue cautioned that liens come through in bulk, and there was “a 99 percent chance” Wurzelbacher didn’t know he owed the money.
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Clifford Smith, better known as Wu-Tang Clan rapper Method Man, turned himself in to police in October 2009 after racking up $32,799 in New York state taxes between 2004 and 2007, according to the New York Post. In June 2010, he pleaded guilty to tax evasion and paid a $106,000 fine.

The Grammy winner had settled a previous tax debt of more than $52,000 in March 2009. At the time, he told Post reporters that he let that bill pile up “because I got high…I forgot to pay. It was stupid.”
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England’s famously foul-mouthed celebrity chef may be renowned for his tantrums, but he got an earful from British authorities after falling behind on tax payments on four high-profile restaurants, the UK’s Daily Telegraph reported in November 2009. The “Hell’s Kitchen” star, whose restaurants took a financial beating during the recession, risked losing the restaurants if he didn’t make good on the undisclosed bills. Ramsay has since made arrangements to pay off the debts.
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Christy Mihos

Mihos's campaign website for the 2010 Massachusetts gubernatorial race offered "Stop Them Before They Tax Again!" bumper stickers. For the failed Republican candidate, the message may have been personal: Mihos was hit with an IRS fine of nearly $22,000 in 2006 after failing to pay $143,704 in federal taxes on time.

The incident wasn't the first time Mihos ran afoul of the tax man. He said he paid $40,000 to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to settle a dispute over the sales tax on a yacht he bought in Rhode Island but docked at his summer home in Cape Cod.
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The race car driver and "Dancing with the Stars" winner was accused of working with his sister and lawyer to evade more than $2.3 million in taxes. However, Castroneves, his sister, and lawyer were acquitted in April 2009. All three faced more than six years in prison if they had been convicted.
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Even the treasury secretary hasn't played by IRS rules. Geithner failed to pay $34,000 in self-employment taxes, including Social Security and Medicare taxes between 2001 and 2004. Geithner contended the mistakes weren't intentional, but said that he should have known better.
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Daschle had to withdraw his nomination for health and human services secretary once he was accused of failing to pay more than $128,000 in taxes. The back taxes involved unreported consulting fees, questionable charitable contributions, and failure to pay taxes on the use of a limousine and driver, according to a "confidential draft" report prepared by Senate Finance Committee staff.
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The Italian businessman, and former boyfriend to Anne Hathaway, served more than a 3½ years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy in 2008. Among other schemes, Follieri claimed to be the chief financial officer of the Vatican, bilking investors out of millions.
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An apartment at Trump World Tower in Manhattan serves as home base for the New York Yankees shortstop during the baseball season. But Jeter didn't think that was reason enough for him to pay New York state income taxes from 2001 to 2003. Jeter settled his dispute with officials, though the terms of the agreement were not released.
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The creator of the "Girls Gone Wild" video series has had his share of tax woes. He was indicted a few years ago on federal tax evasion charges for allegedly deducting more than $20 million in phony business expenses. In October 2009, he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of filing false tax returns, dodging much heftier charges of tax evasion.
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The former Tyco International chief executive was convicted in 2005 of misappropriating more than $400 million of the company's money, a crime for which he is serving an eight-year, four-month sentence. He also had his share of tax woes — in 2006, he agreed to pay New York $21.2 million in unpaid city sales tax, income tax, and fines.
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Before the ImClone insider trading scandal, Stewart found herself in a different kind of financial skirmish. Stewart failed to pay $220,000 in state taxes for her East Hampton, N.Y., home because she didn't feel she spent enough time there to warrant the tax. In 2002, a judge ruled otherwise.
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